Minikube

Enable systemd in WSL2.

plaintext $ sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf plaintext

Add following lines in it and save.

yaml [boot] systemd=true plaintext

Shutdown wsl2 and start it again.

bash $ wsl --shutdown $ wsl plaintext

Installing Docker

bash $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y plaintext

bash sudo apt-get install -y \ apt-transport-https \ ca-certificates \ curl \ software-properties-common plaintext

bash curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - plaintext

bash sudo add-apt-repository \ "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) \ stable" plaintext

bash sudo apt-get update -y plaintext

bash sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce plaintext

bash sudo usermod -aG docker $USER && newgrp docker plaintext

Install Minikube

```bash

Download the latest Minikube

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64

Make it executable

chmod +x ./minikube

Move it to your user’s executable PATH

sudo mv ./minikube /usr/local/bin/

#Set the driver version to Docker minikube config set driver docker ```plaintext

Install Kubectl

```bash

Download the latest Kubectl

curl -LO “https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl”

Make it executable

chmod +x ./kubectl

Move it to your user’s executable PATH

sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/ ```plaintext

Running Minikube

bash $ minikube start plaintext

It will take couple of minutes depending upon your internet connection.

If it shows you an error, it could be possible to your WSL2 is out of date as systemd was introduced in Sept-2022.

To fix that

# In powershell type wsl.exe — update and try running minikube start after restarting wsl

Once your minikube starts working, type:

bash $ kubectl config use-context minikube plaintext

```bash

Start minikube again to enable kubectl in it

$ minikube start ```plaintext

bash $ kubectl get pods -A plaintext

You’ll see something.